#compose

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

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I always begin to compose the melody first. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

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Forever is composed of nows. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions. ↗

— William Falconer

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John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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